25 ottob 1951 anni - Churchill's Election

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Failures of Attlee's government:
- income tax rose by 6d (2.5p) in the pound
- charges introduced for spectacles and dentures in the NHS
- Bevan, Freeman and Wilson resigned
- government reduced restrictions on imports causing another payment crisis and debts from Korean war could not be paid
- costs of living rose
- wage demands increased
- international investors lost faith in the pound

Labour's Campaign:
- negative campaigning
- Churchill was called a war monger
- conservatives accused to bring back the unemployment of the 1930s
-Failure of the liberals, only 109 seats in 1950

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